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Heard Tell Good Talks: The Dysfunctional CPS
How West Virginia’s Child Protective Services Become So Dysfunctional, and What We Can do About It w/ Kelli Caseman of Think Kids WV
1 min readOct 30, 2023
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On this Heard Tell Good Talks our guest is Kelli Caseman, Executive Director of Think Kids West Virginia, to talk about the long-running issues of the West Virginia CPS that started long before the recent headlines of shocking abuse cases, backlogs of neglect cases, and fights over manning and funding. Kelli and host Andrew talks about the underlying issues of the opioid epidemic and poverty, how issues in the CPS system adversely affects the school system and vice-versa, how “the system” is still people even when dysfunctional and overwhelmed, and how agencies fighting over…
